suffixes
A scientIST is one who _____________ science.
What is practices?
These two roots rhyme: one means 'bend' and the other means 'throw'
What are 'ject' and 'flect' ?
A popular material used to patch a variety of leaks, breaks, and rips is duct tape, the 'duct' part being a root with this particular meaning.
What is 'to lead'?
2 answers
The words communicate and concert both use this prefix with slight spelling variation, which carries a specific meaning.
What are 'com' and 'con'
which both mean 'with' ?
geo
-al
ex-
What is 'geo' is a root meaning 'earth'
'al' is a suffix meaning 'relating to'
and
'ex-' is a prefix meaning 'out' ?
Example words built from the suffixes -er and -or
are:
painter
sculptor
Those suffixes both mean ________ _________
What is "one who?"
The meaning of this root as used in words like:
metric
metronome
kilometer
What is 'measure' ?
In the following sentence, identify the root that means bend in the word 'reflected.'
As the sun reflected off the clouds, the-prism effect formed a double rainbow.
What is 'flect' ?
The prefix 'trans' used in words like transportation and transfer has this specific meaning.
What is 'across' ?
From this list of example word parts, four are roots:
photo duct ology
re scope therm
ity de
What are:
phot
duct
scope
therm
The meaning of this suffix is important in words like biology and geology.
What is "the study of?"
these two roots both mean 'see'
What are 'scop' and 'spec'
8 answers
What these 4 roots and their meanings have in common is that they all have to do with one of the 5 senses.
What are:
'aud'
'op'
'scop'
'spec'
A way to remember the meaning of this prefix is what the EXIT sign of any building tells us to do.
What is 'go out' ?
or
What is 'out' ?
3 answers
After eliminating the misspelled word below, you are left with a word that uses a prefix with a specific meaning:
devision
decapitate
What is: You are left with the word decapitate with a prefix 'de' meaning 'from;down' ?
The small difference in meaning between '-ity' and
'-tion'
What is '-ity' means 'state of' and '-tion' means 'state or quality of' ?
These two roots both mean 'light.'
What are 'photo' and 'luc' ?
An example word that uses the root meaning 'star'
What is asteroid or astronaut?
The literal translation of the word 'impossible' also states the meaning of the prefix 'im'
What is 'not possible' ?
Three of the words from the following list use the prefix di- to mean 'two'
*dine divide
*dinner Disney
*divergent diabetic
What are:
divergent
divide
diabetic ?
2 answers
When this popular suffix, meaning _____________ is used at the end of words they become adjectives.
What is the suffix '-al' means 'relating to' ?
The meaning of the root of the word 'fracture'
What is 'to break' ?
In the following sentence, identify the meanings of each root in order of appearance.
The 'geo'logist used a 'therm'ographic camera to locate the 'aqui'fer beneath the desert.
What are:
'geo' means 'earth'
'therm' means 'heat and
'aqui' means 'water'
4 answers
The literal meaning of and 3 example words using the prefix 're'
What is 're' means again;back
and
What are: (any 3 used correctly...like...)
return
refund
relocate
One translation of the prefix 'in-' is 'in, into,' and another translation is 'not.'
Three of the words in the following list use the prefix 'in-' to mean 'not.'
infer inject
ineffable ingrate
infrared incognito
What are
ineffable
ingrate
and incognito ?